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Procedure price report · Other diagnostic radiology and related techniques

X-ray of the abdomen, three or more views

CPT 74021the billing code this page is about

Plain X-ray imaging of the abdomen taken from at least three different angles.

Hospitals typically charge $315 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,577 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $322. Most fall between $164 and $529 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,577
States
50
Filings dated
Aug 2022 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 24, 2026

Median: half of hospitals filed less, half more — and it is a price some hospital actually filed. Average of the middle 60%: the mean of the prices between the 20th and 80th percentiles. We never publish the plain average, the lowest or the highest price: the extremes in hospital price files are chargemaster artefacts, not prices anyone pays.

What hospitals charge, from cheapest to most expensive

Cash price percentiles, outpatient, across 2,577 hospitals. Each figure is a price a hospital filed. 10th: one in ten hospitals charges less; 25th: a quarter charge less; Median: half charge less; 75th: three quarters charge less; 90th: nine in ten charge less.
10th25thMedian75th90th
$116$188$315$469$820

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($116 vs $820).

How the prices are spread

$84 – $109: 96 hospitals$84$109 – $141: 194 hospitals$141 – $184: 201 hospitals$141$184 – $239: 259 hospitals$239 – $311: 384 hospitals$239$311 – $404: 407 hospitals$404 – $526: 386 hospitals$404$526 – $684: 191 hospitals$684 – $889: 121 hospitals$684$889 – $1,156: 82 hospitals$889median $315price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,321 of 2,577 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$84$10996
$109$141194
$141$184201
$184$239259
$239$311384
$311$404407
$404$526386
$526$684191
$684$889121
$889$1,15682

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$107
Median cash price$315
Cash as a multiple of Medicare2.9×

The Medicare figure is the national unadjusted OPPS rate for this code — what Medicare itself pays a hospital before local wage adjustment. It is a benchmark, not a price anyone is charged.

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $315.

Alaska: median $399 across 12 hospitalsAK$399Maine: median $246 across 21 hospitalsME$246Vermont: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $261 across 14 hospitalsNH$261Washington: median $322 across 58 hospitalsWA$322Idaho: median $332 across 16 hospitalsID$332Montana: median $259 across 14 hospitalsMT$259North Dakota: median $185 across 19 hospitalsND$185Minnesota: median $172 across 66 hospitalsMN$172Illinois: median $353 across 96 hospitalsIL$353Wisconsin: median $224 across 85 hospitalsWI$224Michigan: median $218 across 70 hospitalsMI$218New York: median $275 across 95 hospitalsNY$275Massachusetts: median $380 across 39 hospitalsMA$380Oregon: median $310 across 42 hospitalsOR$310Nevada: median $506 across 17 hospitalsNV$506Wyoming: median $272 across 12 hospitalsWY$272South Dakota: median $478 across 20 hospitalsSD$478Iowa: median $255 across 54 hospitalsIA$255Indiana: median $291 across 85 hospitalsIN$291Ohio: median $359 across 125 hospitalsOH$359Pennsylvania: median $263 across 98 hospitalsPA$263New Jersey: median $135 across 53 hospitalsNJ$135Connecticut: median $301 across 18 hospitalsCT$301Rhode Island: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $482 across 176 hospitalsCA$482Utah: median $332 across 30 hospitalsUT$332Colorado: median $340 across 54 hospitalsCO$340Nebraska: median $359 across 45 hospitalsNE$359Missouri: median $338 across 58 hospitalsMO$338Kentucky: median $381 across 57 hospitalsKY$381West Virginia: median $218 across 29 hospitalsWV$218Virginia: median $306 across 56 hospitalsVA$306Maryland: median $249 across 32 hospitalsMD$249Delaware: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $239 across 45 hospitalsAZ$239New Mexico: median $288 across 19 hospitalsNM$288Kansas: median $252 across 33 hospitalsKS$252Arkansas: median $221 across 23 hospitalsAR$221Tennessee: median $142 across 58 hospitalsTN$142North Carolina: median $309 across 78 hospitalsNC$309South Carolina: median $428 across 45 hospitalsSC$428Oklahoma: median $297 across 50 hospitalsOK$297Louisiana: median $211 across 40 hospitalsLA$211Mississippi: median $172 across 42 hospitalsMS$172Alabama: median $258 across 31 hospitalsAL$258Georgia: median $278 across 67 hospitalsGA$278Hawaii: median $313 across 16 hospitalsHI$313Texas: median $404 across 199 hospitalsTX$404Florida: median $638 across 145 hospitalsFL$638
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $315. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL145$638+103%$344 – $1,843
Nevada NV17$506+60%$226 – $705
California CA176$482+53%$290 – $879
South Dakota SD20$478+52%$425 – $549
South Carolina SC45$428+36%$191 – $538
Texas TX199$404+28%$245 – $905
Alaska AK12$399+27%$174 – $743
Kentucky KY57$381+21%$191 – $980
Massachusetts MA39$380+20%$224 – $506
Nebraska NE45$359+14%$95 – $503
Ohio OH125$359+14%$235 – $478
Illinois IL96$353+12%$184 – $595
Colorado CO54$340+8%$235 – $435
Missouri MO58$338+7%$250 – $464
Idaho ID16$332+5%$248 – $441
Utah UT30$332+5%$332 – $332
Washington WA58$322+2%$166 – $428
Hawaii HI16$313−1%$222 – $378
Oregon OR42$310−2%$188 – $363
North Carolina NC78$309−2%$249 – $445
Virginia VA56$306−3%$172 – $556
Connecticut CT18$301−4%$215 – $477
Oklahoma OK50$297−6%$159 – $410
Indiana IN85$291−8%$186 – $358
New Mexico NM19$288−8%$188 – $421
Georgia GA67$278−12%$104 – $645
New York NY95$275−13%$126 – $447
Wyoming WY12$272−14%$100 – $360
Pennsylvania PA98$263−17%$127 – $408
New Hampshire NH14$261−17%$170 – $526
Montana MT14$259−18%$133 – $372
Alabama AL31$258−18%$157 – $434
Iowa IA54$255−19%$162 – $384
Kansas KS33$252−20%$180 – $407
Maryland MD32$249−21%$167 – $316
Maine ME21$246−22%$139 – $466
Arizona AZ45$239−24%$152 – $915
Wisconsin WI85$224−29%$140 – $353
Arkansas AR23$221−30%$75 – $339
Michigan MI70$218−31%$144 – $398
West Virginia WV29$218−31%$172 – $361
Louisiana LA40$211−33%$96 – $307
North Dakota ND19$185−41%$149 – $319
Mississippi MS42$172−45%$108 – $215
Minnesota MN66$172−45%$132 – $363
Tennessee TN58$142−55%$90 – $291
New Jersey NJ53$135−57%$116 – $214
Rhode Island RI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price

Hospitals like yours

The same distribution cut by the kind of hospital. Hospital type and ownership come from CMS; a hospital counts as part of a system when its price file is shared with at least one other hospital under the same brand. The national median is $315.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,955$318$161 – $574
Children’s58$425$287 – $629
Critical access556$297$163 – $433
Ownership
For-profit395$412$200 – $1,345
Government376$298$146 – $438
Non-profit1,798$311$161 – $486
System affiliation
Part of a system2,194$324$170 – $550
Independent383$277$136 – $464

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$529
Median cash price$315
Cash as a share of list, median hospital60%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 40%. The share is the median of each hospital’s own cash ÷ list ratio, over hospitals that filed both — not the ratio of the two medians above.

The same procedure, inpatient

1,851 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $327 and the average of the middle 60% is $331; most fall between $175 and $523.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,851 hospitals. Each figure is a price a hospital filed. 10th: one in ten hospitals charges less; 25th: a quarter charge less; Median: half charge less; 75th: three quarters charge less; 90th: nine in ten charge less.
10th25thMedian75th90th
$122$202$327$464$758

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($122 vs $758).

Of the 2,046 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,851 gave a usable cash price; 112 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 83 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,577 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (65%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,855 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,577
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here187
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded91
Hospitals that filed this code2,855

Sections not shown for this setting

  • Since our last snapshot: there is no earlier snapshot at least 90 days older than this one yet.

We last checked these hospitals’ price files for changes between July 20, 2026 and September 24, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 24, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Related procedures

Part of the Other diagnostic radiology and related techniques family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Radiologic Exam Abdomen 3+ Views.

Method

Source
The machine-readable price files every U.S. hospital is required by CMS to publish, parsed per hospital. Nothing is surveyed, sampled or modelled.
What counts
One cash (self-pay) price per hospital for this code and setting. A hospital’s own filing can rule its number out — a placeholder, a “not applicable” note, a list price standing in for cash — and our plausibility checks can flag a price far below what every other hospital files. Both kinds are disclosed above and excluded from the statistics; on the compare tool a flagged price is still shown.
Statistics
Percentiles are discrete: each is a price some hospital filed. The average is the mean of the prices between the 20th and 80th percentiles. We never publish the plain mean, the minimum or the maximum. A state needs 10 hospitals and a segment 20 to show a figure; otherwise the row shows its count and no number. Medicare is the national unadjusted OPPS rate where one exists.
Names
Procedure names on these pages are our own plain-language titles, not the AMA’s copyrighted CPT descriptors. The code is the identity.

The full rules — sources, statistics, thresholds, limitations — are on the methodology page.

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Cite: HospitalRates.com, “X-ray of the abdomen, three or more views (CPT 74021) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-74021-x-ray-of-the-abdomen-three-or-more-views